NOT ONLY A VERY HEAVY VINYLED ( FOR A PEPPER ) COPY OF THE  UK EARLIEST MONO WITH RARE WIDESPINE SLEEVE COMPLETE WITH FOOL INNER AND INSERT BUT THIS COPY SEEMS TO HAVE A LESS COMMON CONSTRUCTION WITH THE YELLOW FROM THE INSIDE FLOWING OVER ONTO THE OUTSIDE CREATING A SMALL BAND OF YELLOW AT THE TOP  ( USUALLY IF ANYTHING IT IS THE OTHER WAY AROUND WITH THE COLOURS FROM THE FRONT AND THE BACK SOMETIMES FLOWING OVER ONTO THE INSIDE FLIPBACKS )

THIS UNUSUAL EFFECT MAKES THIS SLEEVE LOOK A LITTLE MORE LIKE THE U.S. SLEEVES WHICH HAVE A COMPLETE YELLOW BAND AT THE TOP. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE PERSONALLY SEEN THIS ....L@@K

THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT SLEEVED VARIAINTS OF SGT PEPPER AND ALTHOUGH THE CRONOLOGY IS NOT TOTALLY CERTAIN, THE AMOUNT OF LOW MOTHER/STAMPER COPIES FOUND IN WIDESPINE SLEEVES TENDS TO SUBSTANTIATE THE BELIEF THAT THESE WIDESPINE SLEEVES ARE INDEED THE EARLIEST MADE.

INDEED AT THE PRE-RELEASE LAUNCH PARTY ( WHICH i THINK WAS HELD AT BRIAN EPSTEIN'S LONDON HOME ) IN SOME PICTURESTHE BEATLES CAN BE SEEN CLEARLY HOLDING A WIDESPINE SGT PEPPER VARIANT:-

HOWEVER IT IS UNDERSTOOD THAT STORAGE ISSUES LED TO A RAPID RE-DESIGN OF THE SLEEVES TO REDUCE THE WIDTH OF THE SPINE AND IT IS PROBABLY HERE WERE THE SO-CALLED " FOURTH PROOF " THIN SPINE SLEEVES APPEAR WHICH WERE ACTUALLY PROBABLY PROOFS FOR NEW STANDARD THINNER SPINE SLEEVES. AS SUCH THE FOURTH PROOFS ARE PROBABLY NOT THE EARLIEST SLEEVE VARIANTS AS OFTEN CLAIMED, THESE WIDESPINES ARE.

EVEN THOUGH STEREO YELLOW/BLACK PEPPERS ARE ACTUALLY PROBABLY RARER THAN THE MONOS, BECAUSE THE BEATLES WERE INVOLVED DIRECTLY IN THE MONO MIX AND BECAUSE IT IS QUITE DIFFERENT TO THE STEREO MIX WHICH IS THE MIX MOST OF US ARE MOST FAMILAIR WITH, MONO COPIES ARE MORE SOUGHT AFTER.

 GOOD LUCK TO ALL BIDDERS !!

For Auction here is the UK LP ''  SGT PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND " 

ARTIST:  THE BEATLES

MONO/STEREO: MONOCat. No : PMC 7027

LABEL: PARLOPHONE  

COUNTRY: UK

DATE: 1967

MATRICIES:  -1 -1

MOTHERS STAMPERS:  4GDT  2 GGL

TAX: KT

VINYL WEIGHT: 155g

THE CONDITION

SLEEVE: REALLY NICE EXAMPLE, JUST SOME MINOR CREASING AND VERY MINOR WARE BUT  THE SPINE IS FULLY READABLE AND UNWORN BUT THESE IS SOME STAINING SO  GRADES VG+  

LABELS: NO SERIOUS FLAWS - SUPERB CONDITION GRADE EXCELLENT -

INSERT: NO FLAWS, EXCELLENT

FOOL INNER : A FEW SPLITS AND NICKS GRADES VG

 A VERY RARE ITEM INDEED

GOOD LUCK TO ALL BIDDERS!

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